New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

¹ “Can you draw out Le·viʹa·than^*1 with a fishhook, Or with a rope can you hold down its tongue?

² Can you put a rush in its nostrils, Or with a thorn can you bore its jaws?

³ Will it make many entreaties to you, Or will it say soft words to you?

⁴ Will it conclude a covenant with you, That you may take it as a slave to time indefinite?

⁵ Will you play with it as with a bird, Or will you tie it for your young girls?

⁶ Will partners barter for it?^*1 Will they divide it up among tradesmen?^*2

⁷ Will you fill its skin with harpoons, Or its head with fish spears?

⁸ Put your hand upon it. Remember the battle. Do not do it again.^*1

⁹ Look! One’s expectation about it will certainly be disappointed. One will also be hurled down at the mere sight of it.

¹⁰ None is so audacious that he should stir it up. And who is it that can hold his ground before me?

¹¹ Who has given me something first, that I ought to reward him? Under the whole heavens it is mine.

¹² I shall not keep silent about its parts Or the matter of [its] mightiness and the grace of its proportions.

¹³ Who has uncovered the face of its clothing? Into its double jaw^*1 who will enter?

¹⁴ The doors of its face^*1 who has opened? Its teeth round about are frightful.

¹⁵ Furrows of scales are its haughtiness, Closed as with a tight seal.

¹⁶ One to the other they fit closely, And not even air can come in between them.

¹⁷ Each one to the other^*1 they are stuck together; They grasp one another and cannot be separated.

¹⁸ Its very sneezings flash forth light, And its eyes are like the beams of dawn.

¹⁹ Out of its mouth there go lightning flashes, Even sparks of fire make their escape.

²⁰ Out of its nostrils smoke goes forth, Like a furnace set aflame even with rushes.

²¹ Its soul^*1 itself sets coals ablaze, And even a flame goes forth out of its mouth.

²² In its neck lodges strength, And before it despair leaps.^*1

²³ The folds of its flesh do cling together; They are as a casting upon it, immovable.

²⁴ Its heart is cast like stone, Yes, cast like a lower millstone.

²⁵ Due to its rising up the strong get frightened; Due to consternation they get bewildered.

²⁶ Overtaking it, the sword itself does not prove equal, Nor spear, dart or arrowhead.

²⁷ It regards iron as mere straw, Copper as mere rotten wood.

²⁸ An arrow^*1 does not chase it away; The slingstones have been changed for it into mere stubble.

²⁹ A club has been regarded [by it] as mere stubble, And it laughs at the rattling of a javelin.

³⁰ As pointed earthenware fragments^*1 are its underparts; It spreads out a threshing instrument upon the mire.

³¹ It causes the depths to boil just like a pot; It makes the very sea like an ointment pot.

³² Behind itself it makes a pathway shine;^*1 One would regard the watery deep as gray-headedness.^*2

³³ Upon the dust there is not the like of it, The one made to be without terror.

³⁴ Everything high it sees. It is king over all majestic wild beasts.”^*1

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